בָּרָה
Biblical Hebrew
Meaning
OpenScriptures lexical index
eat tree →
Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906
בָּרָה: vb. eat tree →
The whole BDB entry
vb. eat (Assyrian barû & deriv. ZimBP 31) Pf. 2 S 12:17 בָּרָה; Impf. אֶבְרֶה 2 S 13:6, 10 eat bread (בְּרוּ־לָכֶם 1 S 17:8 scribal error for בחדו לכם 1 K 18:25 DrSm 107). Inf. לְבָרוֹת La 4:10 for devouring. Impf. תַּבְרֵנִי 2 S 13:5; Inf. לְהַבְרוֹת 2 S 3:35 cause to eat bread.
Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (3 candidates)
Glosses
MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: commission (1).
In the verses
וַֽיַּעֲמֹ֗ד וַיִּקְרָא֙ אֶל־מַעַרְכֹ֣ת יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל וַיֹּ֣אמֶר לָהֶ֔ם לָ֥מָּה תֵצְא֖וּ לַעֲרֹ֣ךְ מִלְחָמָ֑ה הֲל֧וֹא אָנֹכִ֣י הַפְּלִשְׁתִּ֗י וְאַתֶּם֙ עֲבָדִ֣ים לְשָׁא֔וּל בְּרוּ־לָכֶ֥ם אִ֖ישׁ וְיֵרֵ֥ד אֵלָֽי׃
Word for word: and he.stood and he.called.out to the.battle.lines of.Israel and he.said to them why? do.you.come.out to deploy battle ? not [am].I the Philistine and.[are] you? servants of Saul commission for yourselves a.man and let.him.come.down to me
JPS 1917: And he stood and cried unto the armies of Israel, and said unto them: 'Why do ye come out to set your battle in array? am not I a Philistine, and ye servants to Saul? choose you a man for you, and let him come down to me.
On Mova
- This word in the Tanakh dictionary on Mova free.
- Trees and pragmatics of its meanings: every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
This page in Markdown → https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/biblical-hebrew/ברה-2/